vattghan.] FULLER S EARTH OF FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. 
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Thirty yards north of this pit, stratum No. 1 of the section given 
above was penetrated. It was 4 feet thick, and beneath it was blue 
clay mixed with fuller's earth. 
Analyses of fuller's earth from mines of Mr. J. D. Lester, Attapulgus, Ga. 
[Analyst, H. Ries.] 
Constituent. 
1. 
2. 
Silica 
Per cent. 
55. 90 
12.40 
2.40 
1.00 
8.12 
10. 50 
9.40 
Percent. 
57 26 
Alumina 
is 33 
Ferric oxide _ 
1 87 
Lime. - .- - .. - 
2. 58 
Magnesia _ 
1 06 
Water 
9.40 
Moisture . - . 
9 00 
99.72 
99. 50 
Two practical tests gave the following results : "In the first, mineral 
oils were bleached very nearly to the standard shade. In the second, 
the material showed with cotton-seed oil very fair bleaching qualities, 
but still was not quite equal to the English material." 
In the well bored at Mr. Lester's house on the hill the fuller's earth 
was struck at a depth of 42 feet. It was also found on property 
belonging to Mr. G. P. Wood, immediately south of Mr. Lester's. 
Connell property , near WTiigham. — A pit sunk 1 mile south of the 
house of Mr. R. A. Connell showed 6-J feet of fuller's earth, with 19| 
feet of overburden. An auger boring in the creek bed near b}^ 
showed 1 foot of fuller's earth and 10 feet of overburden. Other pits 
sunk on Sears and Wolffs creeks showed several feet of fuller's earth, 
with 5 to 8 feet of overburden. 
Near WithlaeoocJiee Creek. — A mine on the west side of Withla- 
coochee Creek, about one-fourth mile northeast of the Georgia- Florida 
State line, was opened by John Howard in 1896 or 1897 and sold to 
the Owl Commercial Company in the same }^ear. There was from 4 to 
8 feet overburden of soil, clay, and white or brownish sand, and 
immediately above the fuller's earth a layer of bluish or reddish sandy 
clay; then 2 feet, or a little more, of fuller's earth, underlain by whitish 
argillaceous sandstone. The bed is not constant in character. On 
the north side of the road there is a sand seam in the fuller's earth. 
On the east side of the creek there is an exposure in the roadside 
The overburden has been removed from an area of about 50 feet square. 
Several carloads of material have been piled up and placed under a 
shed. 
This fuller's earth has not been analyzed, bul has been practically 
tested by Dr. Heinrich Ries. It is of the same quality as that from 
